9/8/07

Jane Kelsey Rallies Anti-APEC Gathering

Prof Jane Kelsey Rallies Anti-APEC Gathering in Sydney

# Scoop Audio: New Zealand academic Professor Jane Kelsey spoke to an anti-APEC rally in Sydney's Hyde Park on Friday. Prof. Kelsey said APEC's trade liberalisation agenda is causing families to become further impoverished in many developing world countries. She said the US-Australia plan to develop nuclear power generation technology as a means to solve the world's climate change problems was dangerous and self-serving.

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"Australia and NZ remained unrepentant for their brutal suppression of indigenous independence movements in the Pacific. They rationalized such behavior as enhancing the welfare of the Islands and the human development of their people – just as they justified similar behavior towards indigenous peoples in their own countries"